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or members of unions. is there a gender component? more on the vanguard. in some ways i think there are some connections. the maternity insurance issue have always been a big one. a lot of these critiques of the american way of rationing have been routed in women's experience with health care and the health care needs that women have. maternity coverage, coverage care for children was the impetus behind the 1920s health act. and of course the movement for reproductive rights has at times, i wish more attention were paid to this because it has done this but we hear much less about our reproductive rights activism is also about health care for all, for every body. there's some much focus on women demanding particular reproductive services, but those types of activism, rooted in experiences have led to a really strong stand on health care rights even though not all women activists would these 9 that the same way. >> going to have to stop there. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> for more information visit th
or members of unions. is there a gender component? more on the vanguard. in some ways i think there are some connections. the maternity insurance issue have always been a big one. a lot of these critiques of the american way of rationing have been routed in women's experience with health care and the health care needs that women have. maternity coverage, coverage care for children was the impetus behind the 1920s health act. and of course the movement for reproductive rights has at times, i...
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why was it so important to him to save the union? why fight a war that cost more american lives than all of our other wars put together? three-quarters of a million people dead and countless more wounded in body and in mind. to understand this story, i must take you back another 50 plus years before 1862, to a winter day in february, 18 nine. when abe lincoln was born in the kentucky wilderness on sunday, february 12, he entered a world as harsh and primitive as if he had been born a thousand years earlier. there was no doctor. simply giving birth put his mother's life in mortal danger. the only help available with the old granny women as they called her, who was summoned from miles away. a newborn baby was washed up in water and carried up a hill from a chirping spring, wrapped in animal fur and laid on a bed of dried up corn husks on a mud floor. now in later years, lincoln would allow his political supporters to glamorize his frontier roots. they made him out to be a sort of backless superman, but the log cabin had no romance for
why was it so important to him to save the union? why fight a war that cost more american lives than all of our other wars put together? three-quarters of a million people dead and countless more wounded in body and in mind. to understand this story, i must take you back another 50 plus years before 1862, to a winter day in february, 18 nine. when abe lincoln was born in the kentucky wilderness on sunday, february 12, he entered a world as harsh and primitive as if he had been born a thousand...
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the union army and was involved with some notable battles. on the first lady's father's side, there is an ancestor. sometimes making these connections is difficult. someone who i think is an ancestor who joined the union army around the time slavery was ended. kind of making that link was unclear but not an easy thing. the records are there in terms of the civil war service of those ancestors and the descendants didn't know about that. >> you talk a lot about dna testing. with a book like this and your research have been possible before dna testing? >> good question. it certainly helped. we would have had circumstantial evidence that would have suggested the first lady's white ancestors came from the shield's family that owned millvinia but there would be no way to know for sure. 20 first century technology is what helped unravel -- ten years ago i wouldn't have been able to write this book in the way that it is now. >> any more questions? we have a little time left. i just wanted to say something about the book that made me think, but here i
the union army and was involved with some notable battles. on the first lady's father's side, there is an ancestor. sometimes making these connections is difficult. someone who i think is an ancestor who joined the union army around the time slavery was ended. kind of making that link was unclear but not an easy thing. the records are there in terms of the civil war service of those ancestors and the descendants didn't know about that. >> you talk a lot about dna testing. with a book like...
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them on the road to passage and january 8th is also the day of lyndon johnson's first state of the union speech. the speech in which he makes the presidency his own. with his announcement that america is going to have a war on poverty. if we don't know the man guido, not well enough known in history are wonderful. too many americans live on the outskirts of hope and that is his quote. that is who we have to help. the more detail you learn about how johnson did it, about what he did with congress and what he did to congress, the more amazing accomplishment seems. the civil-rights bill is dead -- if there was only one leader lyndon johnson is going to grab it. if there was one leader he was going to put all his weight behind it. all of a sudden the new york times writes something changed on capitol hill yesterday and the civil-rights bill starts to move. during this brief transition period, what i call "the passage of power" lyndon johnson not only rescued his predecessor's programs but launches one of his don't, a war on poverty, a crusade for a noble end that would, had it succeeded, hav
them on the road to passage and january 8th is also the day of lyndon johnson's first state of the union speech. the speech in which he makes the presidency his own. with his announcement that america is going to have a war on poverty. if we don't know the man guido, not well enough known in history are wonderful. too many americans live on the outskirts of hope and that is his quote. that is who we have to help. the more detail you learn about how johnson did it, about what he did with...
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the union armies were struggling to grow virtually overnight from a few thousand coupes to scattered across the continent to more than half a million. the inexperienced officers brought to command these raw volunteers were stymied by the sys of the breakaway confederate states of america. which covered a space larger than the entire european territory conquered by napoleon. lincoln's closest advisor was secretary of state william henry seward who said even smart people fail to see the difficulty of the union task. they did and apprehend the vast extent of the rebellion as he put it. military operations to be successful, hitherto practically unknown in the art of war. >> strained federal union forces, on 1862, abraham lincoln rides to greatness. four days of booktv. >> everything he loved and life and lost. mr. hendrickson, what was people are? >> the seagoing fishing cruiser that hemingway bought in 1934 and phone for the last 27 years of his life, probably the most beloved material possessions that he ever owned so i thought i could tell the hemingway story in a news story through a
the union armies were struggling to grow virtually overnight from a few thousand coupes to scattered across the continent to more than half a million. the inexperienced officers brought to command these raw volunteers were stymied by the sys of the breakaway confederate states of america. which covered a space larger than the entire european territory conquered by napoleon. lincoln's closest advisor was secretary of state william henry seward who said even smart people fail to see the...
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douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and voices. words are key to our imagination and capacity to envision things. we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page. but i think that there is no other art form so readily
douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and voices. words are key to our imagination and capacity to envision things. we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page. but i think that there is no other art form so readily
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he was a key figure in opposing labor unions. he did so alongside people like barry goldwater. even the early in his career he had been a staunch advocate of unions in south carolina back in the '30s and '40s when the union vote was an important vote in south carolina, but he switches in the '50s and 60s about 1970s, some diehard supporter of business against labor. then he also is important role in conservative evangelical politics. he joins the board of bob jones university in 1950. he does it to win votes. bob jones had just moved, just moved his university and thurmond needed votes in south carolina. had lost in 1950 race for the senate to johnson, larger on the strength of votes he didn't win in the up country. that began a long process, a long relationship of thurmond with conservatives fundamentalists and evangelicals who are looking to get involved in the political process. so we need to understand thurmond's racial politics in the mix of these other conservative causes, these conservative issues that he was very involved in. and to see how they intersect with one anoth
he was a key figure in opposing labor unions. he did so alongside people like barry goldwater. even the early in his career he had been a staunch advocate of unions in south carolina back in the '30s and '40s when the union vote was an important vote in south carolina, but he switches in the '50s and 60s about 1970s, some diehard supporter of business against labor. then he also is important role in conservative evangelical politics. he joins the board of bob jones university in 1950. he does...
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the mexican workers got here, they realized that the union was on strike. so there is a huge turnaround as far as attitude and, again, the people. >> there is, but there isn't a change in attitude. a lot of people in the united states are perfectly happy as long as they can be sent back to mexico once the labor was done. the program is really an incredibly unfair program to mexican laborers and really set a model for importation of other models that continue to this day. it was in terms of the weight of the mexican people -- you became part of the united states retreated -- it's a terrible story. the thing i found profound and sad, there are a number of mexicans who support the u.s. cause. they actually think that they are going to be better off under a u.s. government than they are under mexico's government. the fact is that mexico does not treat the residents of the northern territories very well. it is not provide them with protection of indian tribes. and a lot of these people in california actually come on board the u.s. cause and they support u.s. tro
the mexican workers got here, they realized that the union was on strike. so there is a huge turnaround as far as attitude and, again, the people. >> there is, but there isn't a change in attitude. a lot of people in the united states are perfectly happy as long as they can be sent back to mexico once the labor was done. the program is really an incredibly unfair program to mexican laborers and really set a model for importation of other models that continue to this day. it was in terms...
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the one prior to this high-profile all the books the presidents have mentioned in the state of the union message and today the president pointing out using someone as an example. that was not done until ronald reagan did it for the first time and the of used these people as an example of their protocol goals -- political goals and i did a biographee of brian lamb with educators on c-span and people kept saying what is the real brian lamb like and he didn't want a biography done. and i finally got a contract and i came in and said well, and you know, where do you think and he said i guess i would let you and i can't say no on the station committed to open access to information how can i close things down. so it didn't interfere, kind of opened the village, gave me a list of high school friends said that was kind of fun to do. prior to that, a book that looked at individuals that changed national policies and as those that created major legislation because of their action to read estimate what do you teach at the naval academy? >> political science. the last 40 years we've almost always be
the one prior to this high-profile all the books the presidents have mentioned in the state of the union message and today the president pointing out using someone as an example. that was not done until ronald reagan did it for the first time and the of used these people as an example of their protocol goals -- political goals and i did a biographee of brian lamb with educators on c-span and people kept saying what is the real brian lamb like and he didn't want a biography done. and i finally...
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believe it or not the day before he left it out of message from the union station in baltimore saying they had a package for us. we wound down to get it. it was a cocker spaniel dog in a crate sent all the way from texas, black-and-white spotted and her little girl tricia 6-year-old girl named him checkers. the kids love the dog and i want to say this right now there is this charlton heston among us all a regardless of what they say about it. that is of course the central thing that nixon talks about and what gets the name for the speech itself. nixon was very knowingly taking a line from fdr's famous speech and nixon thought it would be great to kind of like make the democrats mad by taking their great leaders onwards and flipping them around to defend himself in what nixon is doing throughout the speech is very clearly that he is divorcing the populist tradition which is rooted in the struggle in the late 19th century among small farmers, and trying to channel their hatred of banks and especially real estate people, who are kind of keeping the small guy down, keeping the small farme
believe it or not the day before he left it out of message from the union station in baltimore saying they had a package for us. we wound down to get it. it was a cocker spaniel dog in a crate sent all the way from texas, black-and-white spotted and her little girl tricia 6-year-old girl named him checkers. the kids love the dog and i want to say this right now there is this charlton heston among us all a regardless of what they say about it. that is of course the central thing that nixon talks...
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all the final candidates were very similar with respect to how they would deal with the soviet union, salt, military balance, high/low, budget reductions. the one thing that distinguished bud zumwalt from all other candidates was his social programs, his people programs, his personnel programs and what he would do to bring the navy into the 20th century by making it more attractive. and he had these two words: fun and zest. that's what he wanted to have so people would join the navy. because there was a reason the reenlistment rates were so low. it just wasn't fun. some would argue, well, it's not supposed to be fun. but if you're the president of the united states and you're doing away with the draft, you know, you've got to get those reenlistment rates up, and we better select a leader who's going to do this. and that's why bud zumwalt was selected. one of the documents i was able to find where these memorandums of conversations where kissinger told the president and told laird that he could find not a single admiral, full admiral above zumwalt who should be appointed cno, that it w
all the final candidates were very similar with respect to how they would deal with the soviet union, salt, military balance, high/low, budget reductions. the one thing that distinguished bud zumwalt from all other candidates was his social programs, his people programs, his personnel programs and what he would do to bring the navy into the 20th century by making it more attractive. and he had these two words: fun and zest. that's what he wanted to have so people would join the navy. because...
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restrain what polk wants, which is peace and the securing of california and texas into the american union. mexico refuses to surrender despite the fact trees of both taylor and carney. the poked pope is jesus and winfield scott to invade central mexico. he bombards veracruz and travels through central mexico securing the capital of the fall of 1847. now in the eyes of americans, it was sort of a foregone conclusion that there sideway because most u.s. citizens harbored a host of racist police of mexican men. foremost among them being mexican men were too lazy and cowardly to fight. in point of fact, mexican troops but very hard as you can see in this print, mexico produces few images of the were so it's great when you find them so you can get a sense of how their envisioning this happening. mexico lost all of these battles and ultimately lost the military side of the war because they had vastly inferior weapons. their leadership was terrible. mexico's government was in turmoil. they were broke. there were various battles for no money was even making it to the army to support his titles. b
restrain what polk wants, which is peace and the securing of california and texas into the american union. mexico refuses to surrender despite the fact trees of both taylor and carney. the poked pope is jesus and winfield scott to invade central mexico. he bombards veracruz and travels through central mexico securing the capital of the fall of 1847. now in the eyes of americans, it was sort of a foregone conclusion that there sideway because most u.s. citizens harbored a host of racist police...
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five years later on january 11, 1944 in his state of the union address, roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war and especially about the kind of peace the allies plan to establish after the defeat of fascism. he said that the one supreme objective for the future could be summed up in one word, security. and that means not only physical security which provides safety from attacks by aggressors, it means also economic security and social security. the individual political rights upon which the united states had been -- he argued were necessary but not sufficient to guarantee true freedom and security. afcee fcr then announced an economic bill of rights which is sometimes called the second bill of rights that included the right to a job and a living wage, the right to housing, education and security in old age and a right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. so even though if dr. missed hearing florence greenberg's speech, we hear echoes of it in his second bill of rights. the idea of economic and social rights is essential supplements
five years later on january 11, 1944 in his state of the union address, roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war and especially about the kind of peace the allies plan to establish after the defeat of fascism. he said that the one supreme objective for the future could be summed up in one word, security. and that means not only physical security which provides safety from attacks by aggressors, it means also economic security and social security. the individual political rights upon...